[ISN] Defense information assurance manual to be posted online

[InfoSec News]

http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/38125-1.html

By Patience Wait 
GCN Staff
01/30/06 

The training manual for Defense Department information assurance 
professionals that was finalized in December will be available online 
this week. 

The manual, DOD 8570.1-M: Information Assurance Workforce Improvement
Program, will be posted [1] Feb. 1, according to Robert Lentz,
director of information assurance for the Pentagon.

The manual sets the requirements for training and certification of 
approximately 80,000 IA professionals within the department, Lentz 
said. Defense contractors who provide IA services to the Pentagon also 
will be expected to provide staff who meet the requirements. 

DOD CIO John Grimes said in a foreword to the manual that it "is
effective immediately and mandatory for use by all the DOD
components." The basis for the manual is an August 2004 directive [2]
from deputy secretary Paul Wolfowitz that assigned responsibilities
for IA training.

[1] http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/index.html 
[2] http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf/d85701_081104/d85701p.pdf